Laura and Jacob have both moved up a category for 2008 to u16 and u14 respectively with Kim remaining at u8 for the last time. All three went on to take victory again this year. The recent Terry Dolan sponsored race series which was completed only two weeks previously provided some indication of which riders were currently in good form and there were no major surprises in any of the groups, apart maybe in the under-16 boys where Adam Yates, Sports City Velo, had won the recent Terry Dolan series.

He was pushed into the silver medal position by twin brother Simon who rode away strongly in the closing stages of their 45km race to win by a margin of 11secs and claim the title of best regional schoolboy.

Round three of the Thursday evening ten mile time trial series saw Preston CC rider P Johnstone take his third successive win, posting a time of 23mins 05secs from a field of twenty six riders which encouragingly saw a total of fourteen riders from the Southport club taking the start. Bill Sedgewick took the points towards the club ten mile championship with a time of 24mins 19secs and Bill Lloyd headed the Veterans on Standard for the third week with a +6mins 34secs clocking an actual of 25mins 26secs. Bill also posted a creditable 25mins 04secs, his season’s best, in Wigan Wheelers 10mile TT last Saturday afternoon.